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Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:48:49 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.11There Was Another Sexual Misconduct Accusation About Brett Kavanaugh – The FBI Refused to Investigatehttps://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/there-was-another-sexual-misconduct-accusation-about-brett-kavanaugh-the-fbi-refused-to-investigate/
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/there-was-another-sexual-misconduct-accusation-about-brett-kavanaugh-the-fbi-refused-to-investigate/#respondSun, 15 Sep 2019 00:36:39 +0000http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?p=34233The witness "notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate."

The witness “notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate.”

The Times also took a deep dive into the public allegations made by Deborah Ramirez during the Kavanaugh hearings.

“She and some classmates had been drinking heavily when, she says, a freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it,” which had been previously reported.

“During his Senate testimony, Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been ‘the talk of campus.’ Our reporting suggests that it was,” the Times reveals.

“At least seven people, including Ms. Ramirez’s mother, heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge. Two of those people were classmates who learned of it just days after the party occurred, suggesting that it was discussed among students at the time.”

The Times reports the FBI did not investigate, despite the Kavanaugh hearings having been put on hold, supposedly to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct, including alleged sexual violence.

“Ms. Ramirez’s legal team gave the F.B.I. a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau — in its supplemental background investigation — interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the F.B.I. on their own,” the Times continues.

Two F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Ramirez, telling her that they found her “credible.” But the Republican-controlled Senate had imposed strict limits on the investigation. “‘We have to wait to get authorization to do anything else,’” Bill Pittard, one of Ms. Ramirez’s lawyers, recalled the agents saying. “It was almost a little apologetic.”

The Times chose to hide this reporting in its opinion pages as “news analysis.”

This bombshell reporting comes on the heels of another bombshell: Attorney General Bill Barr is giving a prestigious Dept. of Justice award, generally reserved for agents whose investigations uncover, say, attempted terrorism. This year the recipients will be those FBI agents who, as the Times reported separately, worked “to support the nomination” of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh was confirmed by a 50-48 vote in the Senate.

This is a breaking news and developing story. Details may change. This story will be updated, and NCRM will likely publish follow-up stories on this news. Stay tuned and refresh for updates.

]]>Donald Trump’s Twitter attack on MSNBC host Joy Reid set off a round of criticism of the president, with some noting that the president has once again attacked a woman of color.

On Saturday morning the president smeared the “AM Joy” host and professed to know nothing about her, yet his tweet seemed to show that he is very aware of her work covering him to say nothing of her book about him.

The president wrote, “Who the hell is Joy-Ann Reid? Never met her, she knows ZERO about me, has NO talent, and truly doesn’t have the “it” factor needed for success in showbiz. Had a bad reputation, and now works for the Comcast/NBC losers making up phony stories about me. Low Ratings. Fake News!”

You can see Trump’s tweet and the responses to him below:

Who the hell is Joy-Ann Reid? Never met her, she knows ZERO about me, has NO talent, and truly doesn’t have the “it” factor needed for success in showbiz. Had a bad reputation, and now works for the Comcast/NBC losers making up phony stories about me. Low Ratings. Fake News!

Sorry, but @JoyAnnReid has got your number and when it comes to talent and reputations…a sexual assaulting, scam-running, fake reality show hosting, child-raping fraud should keep his mouth shut. #reiders

You know exactly who @JoyAnnReid is, but to refresh your memory, she is an award winning journalist and cable TV news host who brings in huge ratings. I'd say that's the 'it' factor you say she doesn't have. Oh, she's also black. Is that what you mean? You are a repugnant racist

Joy-Ann Reid is a strong black woman who already endured massive online bullying multiple times and survived it all. She is resilient. This latest attack from the President of the United States will not faze her in the least and in fact will boost her profile on MSNBC.

]]>https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/internet-buries-repugnant-racist-trump-over-ugly-joy-reid-smears-another-attack-on-an-african-american-woman/feed/0DOJ Obstructs House Impeachment Inquiry – Asks Federal Court to Block Release of Mueller Grand Jury Files: Reporthttps://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/doj-obstructs-house-impeachment-inquiry-asks-federal-court-to-block-release-of-mueller-grand-jury-files/
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/doj-obstructs-house-impeachment-inquiry-asks-federal-court-to-block-release-of-mueller-grand-jury-files/#respondFri, 13 Sep 2019 22:52:28 +0000http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?p=34226In a stunning move iAttorney General Bill Barr’s Dept of Justice late Friday afternoon filed a 40-page brief with a federal court, declaring the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry is not an impeachment inquiry, in an attempt to block release of files related to the Mueller probe. It appears to be an unprecedented act, in […]

]]>In a stunning move iAttorney General Bill Barr’s Dept of Justice late Friday afternoon filed a 40-page brief with a federal court, declaring the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry is not an impeachment inquiry, in an attempt to block release of files related to the Mueller probe.

It appears to be an unprecedented act, in which the top law enforcement agency is attempting to block Congress from carrying out its constitutional duties.

The DOJ is attempting to block the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury files, according to Politico. House Democrats have frequently said they cannot make an impeachment decision without the underlying materials from Mueller’s exhaustive investigation.

This is really bad for House Dems. DOJ has already seized on their inconsistent and head-spinning messaging on impeachment to argue that they should not be granted access to Mueller’s grand-jury files—bc the cornerstone of their argument is that they’re in an impeachment probe. https://t.co/QZEs4zlaw9

]]>President Donald Trump shocked onlookers at the G7 meeting when he praised the president of Egypt as a dictator.

“Inside a room of the ornately decorated Hotel du Palais during last month’s Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, France, President Trump awaited a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi,” The Wall Street Journalreported Friday.

“Mr. Trump looked over a gathering of American and Egyptian officials and called out in a loud voice: ‘Where’s my favorite dictator?’ Several people who were in the room at the time said they heard the question,” the newspaper reported.

The paper could not determine if Sisi heard the remark.

“Even if lighthearted, Mr. Trump’s quip drew attention to an uncomfortable facet of the U.S.-Egypt relationship,” The Journal reported. “Mr. Sisi has drawn criticism for his authoritarian rule since taking power following a 2013 coup. Under Mr. Sisi, Egyptian authorities have been accused of detaining thousands of political opponents, of torturing and killing prisoners and of stymying political opposition, according to reports by the United Nations, U.S. State Department and nongovernmental groups.”

The paper said Steve Mnuchin, John Bolton and Larry Kudlow were in attendance.

“Within minutes of the quip, Mr. Sisi met Mr. Trump and reporters were allowed in. Mr. Trump, among other comments, celebrated his relationship with Mr. Sisi, noting that the two leaders had begun talking with each other soon after Mr. Trump won the presidential election in 2016,” the paper noted.

“The first thing we would do is make sure our debt is taken care of,” Leader McCarthy told reporters. Under President Donald Trump federal spending has spiraled out of control. The federal budget deficit this week just hit $1 trillion.

]]>https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/republicans-reveal-special-strategy-to-win-in-2020-reduce-debt-and-repeal-obamacare/feed/0Pence Said Being Gay Is ‘Learned Behavior’ or a ‘Choice’ as He Opposed Granting LGBT People Rights in the ’90shttps://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/pence-said-being-gay-is-learned-behavior-or-a-choice-as-he-opposed-granting-lgbt-people-rights-in-the-90s/
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/pence-said-being-gay-is-learned-behavior-or-a-choice-as-he-opposed-granting-lgbt-people-rights-in-the-90s/#respondFri, 13 Sep 2019 19:08:09 +0000http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?p=34222Despite the White House’s recent false claims that Vice President Mike Pence is not anti-gay, a new investigation by CNN proves the conservative Christian Republican politician has a record of anti-gay comments and policies even worse than previously known. In the early 1990’s Pence not only advocated against a Lafayette, Indiana city council referendum that would have […]

In the early 1990’s Pence not only advocated against a Lafayette, Indiana city council referendum that would have been the first in his home state to grant anti-discrimination protections to gay people, but Pence went even farther than just opposing the proposed ordinance.

Falsely calling homosexuality is a “choice” or a “learned behavior,” Pence – then president of a conservative think tank, Indiana Policy Review Foundation – advocated against allowing gay people to be given any minority status at all.

“Once you identify homosexuals as a minority, then by definition they would need to be afforded constitutional protection,” Pence wrote. “Up to this point, our legal tradition in America has drawn a line over those things. I do not choose whether I am a black American … the great vast majority of the psychological community says homosexuality at a very minimum is a choice by the individual, and at the maximum, is a learned behavior.”

Pence also argued that claiming gay people are worthy of protecting would unlock “a Pandora’s Box of legal rights and legal difficulties.”

CNN notes that in the early 1990’s public opinion was about evenly split on whether gay people should be granted civil rights protections. And the American Psychological Association “said in 1992 that data did not support the view that homosexuality was a choice and studies at the time in the 1990s suggested homosexuality was biological and genetic.”

Pence called granting gay people protections “a very bad move in public policy.”

Lahren made her remarks on sister network Fox Business, in an insane segment that included host Stuart Varney’s false claim that America is “the only country in the world where armed citizens are allowed.” 175 countries around the world allow their citizens to be armed, and three explicitly do so in their constitutions.

After telling viewers that “you can’t depend on the government to protect you at all times,” Lahren insisted the “government is going to fail you.”

Having a firearm “is your right, your right to protect and defend yourself and your family,” she added.

“And all the things the Democrats want to put in place — my goodness, if they want to open our borders, you better be sure the people in Texas, the people in South Dakota, the people in the middle of this country, we are going to be armed and ready, because we have to have a means to defend ourselves from — who knows who’s coming in? That’s the thing, we don’t know, and we have to be able to protect ourselves.”

Democrats are not advocating for “open borders.”

Watch:

Fox host Tomi Lahren suggests that Americans may need to shoot immigrants: “We are going to be armed and ready, because we have to have a means to defend ourselves from — who knows who’s coming in?” pic.twitter.com/W5NckY8YhU

]]>https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/tomi-lahren-warns-americans-will-be-armed-and-ready-in-case-they-need-to-shoot-immigrants-who-knows-whos-coming-in/feed/0Lawyers Say It’s ‘Clear’ Grand Jury Has Not Indicted McCabe and Are Asking End to Prosecutionhttps://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/lawyers-say-its-clear-grand-jury-has-not-indicted-mccabe-and-are-asking-end-to-prosecution/
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/lawyers-say-its-clear-grand-jury-has-not-indicted-mccabe-and-are-asking-end-to-prosecution/#respondFri, 13 Sep 2019 15:57:32 +0000http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?p=34218"The justice manual compels you not to resubmit the case to the same or a different grand jury.”

]]>Attorneys for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe are urging federal prosecutors to drop the case against him, saying it is “clear” the grand jury refused to indict him. McCabe has been a target of President Donald Trump and some believe the attempt to prosecute him is political, or an effort to go after the president’s political enemies.

Noting that both The New York Times and the Washington Post “published stories suggesting that the grand jury may have declined to vote in favor of charges,” McCabe’s attorney writes “the only fair and just result is for you to accept the grand jury’s decision and end these proceedings.”

They also warn that if the grand jury declined to indict, “the justice manual compels you not to resubmit the case to the same or a different grand jury.”

The Washington Post adds that McCabe’s legal team “has asked federal prosecutors in D.C. whether a grand jury had rejected their bid to indict the FBI’s former acting director on charges of lying to investigators, pointing to media inquiries and news accounts detailing a series of unusual events in the case.”

The letter was posted to Twitter by Politico national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand, who is also an MSNBC contributor.

Just in: Andrew McCabe’s legal team says in a new letter to Jesse Liu that based on their conversations with the US Attorney’s office in DC yesterday, “it is clear that no indictment has been returned” against McCabe by the grand jury. pic.twitter.com/XtMTelYqEv

]]>https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/lawyers-say-its-clear-grand-jury-has-not-indicted-mccabe-and-are-asking-end-to-prosecution/feed/0Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Trump in Emoluments Lawsuit – Case to Be Retriedhttps://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/federal-appeals-court-rules-against-trump-in-emoluments-lawsuit-case-to-be-retried/
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/federal-appeals-court-rules-against-trump-in-emoluments-lawsuit-case-to-be-retried/#respondFri, 13 Sep 2019 14:12:22 +0000http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?p=34215"Offers another chance for the details of Trump’s businesses to be revealed in court."

]]>A federal appeals court has just overturned a lower court that had ruled in favor of President Donald Trump in an emoluments case brought on behalf of business owners who allege unfair competition.

A district court had thrown out the case, claiming the plaintiffs did not have standing. In a 2-1 decision the Second Circuit Court of Appeals tossed that ruling, saying the business owners did have standing. The case is to be retried.

“We conclude that the district court did not apply the law correctly in finding that it lacked jurisdiction to decide the case,” the majority opinion in the ruling states.

Trump will now be forced to re-defend his case and his actions.

The case was originally brought by the watchdog activist group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, and two individual plaintiffs.

BREAKING NEWS: WE JUST WON OUR APPEAL IN THE EMOLUMENTS CASE IN NEW YORK!

]]>https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/federal-appeals-court-rules-against-trump-in-emoluments-lawsuit-case-to-be-retried/feed/0‘Absolute Fealty at All Times’: New Report Details the Degrading Demands Trump Places on His Aideshttps://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/absolute-fealty-at-all-times-new-report-details-the-degrading-demands-trump-places-on-his-aides/
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/09/absolute-fealty-at-all-times-new-report-details-the-degrading-demands-trump-places-on-his-aides/#respondFri, 13 Sep 2019 13:16:05 +0000http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?p=34214In a report for the Washington Post on Thursday, reporters Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker outlined the grueling and “Kafkaesque” standards President Donald Trump places demands of his aides — standards that now-former National Security Adviser John Bolton failed to live up to. “He tolerates a modicum of dissent, so long as it remains private; […]

]]>In a report for the Washington Post on Thursday, reporters Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker outlined the grueling and “Kafkaesque” standards President Donald Trump places demands of his aides — standards that now-former National Security Adviser John Bolton failed to live up to.

“He tolerates a modicum of dissent, so long as it remains private; expects advisers to fall in line and defend his decisions; and demands absolute fealty at all times,” they wrote.

One anonymous source for the piece explained how his demanding nature is also, at times, excruciatingly paradoxical:

“There is no person that is part of the daily Trump decision-making process that can survive long term,” said a former senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer a candid assessment. “The president doesn’t like people to get good press. He doesn’t like people to get bad press. Yet he expects everyone to be relevant and important and supportive at all times. Even if a person could do all those things, the president would grow tired of anyone in his immediate orbit.”

Anthony Scaramucci described the role of Trump’s staff in particularly degrading terms. In his view, Trump wants “catatonic loyalty” and for his people to act as props. Others told the Post that Trump likes to stage disagreements between his aides and then “play emperor” and decide the winner.

Dozens of Trump aides and appointees have fallen from his grace and been ousted from the administration for failing to play the dutiful role to perfection: former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, former Chief of Staff John Kelly, and former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, to name just a few.

Notably, Bolton wasn’t going to be a prop in this game. When Bolton entered the White House, it was clear to most observers — though apparently not Trump — that he was committed to enacting his vision of foreign policy, one that contrasted sharply with the president’s preferences. It seems Trump appreciated and tolerated Bolton at times, but Bolton’s goal was to manipulate the president in the end. Once even Trump realized that Bolton wasn’t just a tough-guy war-monger stage prop, but an ideologue using the president for his own purposes, he had to go.

The piece interestingly doesn’t mention the roles of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president’s daughter and son-in-law, in the White House. They seem to defy the usual standards for Trump’s aides, and he clearly doesn’t view them as disposable, like a chief of staff or a national security adviser. Being family is different.

But the piece also doesn’t address some of the outlier aides in Trump’s orbit. Why have, for example, Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Miller stuck around so long? How did they avoid the fate of so many others — especially when they both have gotten their fair share of bad press?

Fundamentally, though, the account rings true for the vast majority of Trump’s people. For example, consider that, in the video that sparked the “Sharpiegate” story, Trump had the acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan sitting off to the side, voiceless, acting like a prop and displaying the doctored weather map: